Words & Wordplay

Best answer: In a Comment you say the whole sentence was "A queen who was force in her own right". So, is it 'force', or is it 'forced' as you said in your original question? Please be VERY careful when copying quotations. We now have no idea whether we should be thinking about 'forced' or 'force'.

Ideally you would give us the previous sentence too, or at least explain what the whole situation is.
If you do that, please don't reply in a Comment, but click on EDIT and post an Update, which everyone will see without having to hunt for it.
EDIT again: Thanks for confirming 'force'. But are you certain the word 'a' isn't there too?
And how do you come to have this single sentence, with nothing surrounding it?

Best answer: This is perfectly correct. I'm surprised at the number of people who seem not to have seen 'however' used this way; could it perhaps be a UK / US thing?
(I'm British. To me this phrasing is absolutely standard and normal.)

Why don't people prefer using "did" instead of has/have/had?
"He has done his homework"
"He did his homework"
I just feel "did" is so much more convenient than "has", while sometimes I think people only use "has" because it sounds cool. Why use a redundant word?